Re: Modules that significantly contribute to Hubris

[brian_d_foy]

For Hubris, I would list all of those modules you'd have to pry out of the programmers cold, dead hands. Some modules get so wildly popular that they try to use them for everything no matter the task.

Without any judgement on the actual usefulness or quality of the modules, I think that list includes: CGI, Class::DBI, Maypole, CPANPLUS, WWW::Mechanize, and CGI::Prototype (hi Randal! How's Rio?).

I think a lot of the Class::* hierachy exists because the author thinks that if everyone just used his module, so many problems would just go away. In some cases that may be true, but it's still Hubris

[blazar]

For Hubris, I would list all of those modules you'd have to pry out of the programmers cold, dead hands. Some modules get so wildly popular that they try to use them for everything no matter the task.

On a totally unrelated (and OT) basis, this reminds me of when I first learnt the method of integration with residues: I found it to be so cool that I tried to apply it everytime, everywhere. And once I remind finding myself going mad trying to find a proper contour to calculate a definite integral - until I realized it was an elementary one!!

Without any judgement on the actual usefulness or quality of the modules, I think that list includes: CGI, Class::DBI, Maypole, CPANPLUS, WWW::Mechanize, and CGI::Prototype (hi Randal! How's Rio?).

Indeed at work we use Class::DBI and my impression is that it contributes excellently to all the three Virtues.